The MMQM SG has a web site at the following URL:
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/mmqm/index.html.

At the Boston meetings, the MMQMSG sponsored 18 paper sessions, for a total
of 82 presentations. The business meeting held at Boston included communication
and discussion on the following items:

- the membership of the group is decreasing for the third year in a row.
What can we do about it? Could it be related to the fee increase two years
ago? Resolution: continued efforts to coordinate with other specialty groups
to co-sponsor sessions following the successful mechanisms put in place this
year.

- the "Geography in America" project. The following have been invited and
have accepted to lead the project: John Odland, Pete Rogerson, David Legates,
and Suchi Gopal.

- MMQM student paper competition. This years winner of the stutent
paper competition is Peter Fellows, Syracuse University. The jury decided
not to award the Emerging Scholar Award this year.

- Name change: a consensus emerged that the time may be ripe for changing
the name of the specialty group. A number of suggestions were made. The incoming
chair will poll the membership for interesting ideas and for a vote on the
new name. One of most favored was "Statistics, modeling and computational
methods".